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The FBI Laboratory’s Federal DNA Database Unit (FDDU) exists to intake and process DNA samples from U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) agencies and other federal law enforcement agencies. It generates genetic profiles from these samples, quality checks these profiles, and adds them to the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS).
Typically the FDDU received some 100,000 samples to process annually. A federal regulation change some five years ago caused the number of samples to surge. This eventually caused a backlog of well over 1.8 million samples by the end of the Biden administration.
